JPA-based applications can't connect to a database on their own. Rather, they need help in terms of what credentials to use, which schema to seek, which JDBC driver to select and which annotated ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any ...

Like it or not, data is an integral part of any application, even cool object-oriented ones. Everything stops at the persistence layer, where Java developers traditionally have had to write complex ...

In my blog entry Project Jersey and Java-Based REST, I used several screen snapshots and some text to illustrate how NetBeans 6.1 can be used with Jersey (the JSR-311/JAX-RS reference implementation) ...